Hard Disk Sentinel (Linux Edition) Examines the Health and Temperature of Your Hard Disks

Hard Disk Sentinel - Linux console edition is a tool for examining the health, temperature and other useful info about your disks (IDE, S-ATA, SATA II, SCSI and USB).

List of features

• display hard disk / solid state disk information on the terminal
• create comprehensive report about the disk system, including both hard disk and SSD specific features (for example, media rotation rate, TRIM command, etc.)
• display and manage acoustic setting of hard disks (on supported USB disks also)
• offers outputs for both users and scripts/other applications to process

The following information are displayed:

• detected hard disk number and device name (for example /dev/sda)
• size, model ID, serial number, revision and interface of all detected hard disks
• temperature, health and performance values
• power on time (days, hour, minutes - if supported)
  Note: this is for informational purposes only, the value displayed under Windows (after some minutes of testing) may be more accurate
• acoustic management settings (if supported and -aam or -setaam option is used

How to use Hard Disk Sentinel

Download Hard Disk Santinel Linux console edition, then extract the archive contents to any folder. Open a terminal to the folder where you extracted it or navigate using the terminal and run the following command to make the HDSentinel executable:

chmod 755 HDSentinel

Now you can launch it (it needs sudo!) with the following command:

sudo ./HDSentinel [options]

where [options] can be:

• -h - displays help and usage information
• -r [report file] - automatically save report to filename (default: report.txt)
• -dump - dump report to stdout (can be used with -xml to dump XML output instead of text)
• -xml - create and save XML report instead of TXT
• -solid - solid output (drive, tempC, health%, power on hours, model, S/N, size)
• -verbose - detailed detection information and save temporary files (only for debug purposes)
• -aam - display acoustic management settings (current and recommended level)
• -setaam drive_num|ALL level(hex)80-FE|QUIET|LOUD - set acoustic level on drive 0..n (or all)
  80 or QUIET is the lowest (most silent) setting, FE or LOUD is the highest (fastest) setting
  For example: hdsentinel -setaam 0 loud - Configures drive 0 to fastest (loud) setting. Same as hdsentinel -setaam 0 FE

Usage examples:

Optimize complete system for silence:

hdsentinel -setaam all quiet

Optimize complete system for high performance (but louder disk access):

hdsentinel -setaam all loud

Select a balanced level between silence and performance on drive 0:

hdsentinel -setaam 0 C0